The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-08-24
Bathing at Ashbury Park, and Bouk-miking
ut Monmouth.
Cottage Life and Hotel Life at the Atlantic
Eea-baardI Hotels.
The Long BranchiHostelries and the People
Who Patronize them-Anecdotes-
Personals-Notes, Etc.
:ISpeciel Sentinel letter.
NEWPORT, NARRAeANsETT PIER,
LONG BRANCH, OCEAN GROVE,


done largely by maidens many and young
men few who study all the picturesque
attitudes of the art galleries and comic
opera troupes for actual illustration on the
sand orIhotel, balconies, or in hammocks and
open coaches. The rest of the lying is done
with great business-like ability by some of
the..hotel keepers, and with great liberality
and vividness by the Newspaper reporters
and letter writers. There is also great pic
turesqueness and originality in the work'lof
the latter, which can neither be described
nor initiated nor improved upon; and
will not endeavor to emulate it, though, at
times, 1 am not bad liar myself. have
been all along the coast during the past
fortnight in search of the naughty things
the newspaper people have been describing,
and some of the incidents have picked up
ought to furnish rather interesting read
lug.
At Newport the bay was full of pleasure
yachts-the finest fleet of the kind in the
world, as far as know. Life on these YES.
sels.is luxurious and a little lascivious.
The utmost freedom of the sexes seems to
prevail, and it is no uncommon thing to
observe young men and girls asleep on
deck in the same silk-woven hsmmocks.
It is the rule rather than the exception
that handsome wives of owners and guests,
after wine and game dinners which Lucul-
Ius would have envied, If he had not dined
and dllated some 1000 years too soon,
shall rest on the deck in the hammocks of
others rather than those of their own liege
lords. Able seamenIof the yachts are specl.
ally employed to fan the couples thus re-
posing; and l am told that one very dis
Greet millionaire who issues many invita-.
tions for long cruises on his large feet
steam yacht. accompanies each invitation
with postscript notice to the effect that
''no seaman on the - can either hear,
speak or write" The Newport ladies have
reduced hammc"lI Irritation to a science,
and the attitudes into which they can
throw themselves in these plant touches
would justify true artist in throwing the
''Three Graces" overheard and substitute
ing yacht owners wives and daughters as
models.
At NarraganseLt Pier the bathing co s
tunes this season are models of beauty, Of
color and of brevity. The ordinary silk
tights of the ballet are used, with the adj
dition OF belt at the waist and garters
Just above or just below the knee, as the
modssty Of the wearer may suggest 1 say
modesty advisedly, for it is the custom Cor
the fashion,, for this season only, for gen.
tlemen to adjust the garters whenever they
become displaced by the waves, as they
often do; and fashion also DEGREES that, for
modesty's sake, this ve1v frequent task
must be performed while the garter is be-
low the water, and out of sight OF the vul-
gar unbathing crowd that lines the shore.
A corset is worn, as in ordinary attire, and
over and above this, and extending half
way TO the knee. a jersey conceals the
well, it conceals the corset. 1t is impera
tive that the color of the tights shall be the
exact shade of the hair worn on that spe.
cisl occasion. Tights are to be changed as
often as the hair.
The "Nev jerusalem has been establish
ed at Long Branch. / found Their Roya
Highnesses Prince and Princess Joachim
son installed at the West End Hotel. To
Prince is the only resident noble of the Jew
ish persuasion in America, and, of course
he and the Princess are followed iron
place to place as they make their summe
hegiIa of the watering places. No othe
language than the Hebrew is spoken b.
the Isrelites at Long Branch. So, few O
the Americans, and even the America
and English born Jews here, could enjo
the grand thoughts Of the Prince and tn
poetic language Ia which he spake them
Host Hildreth, Lawyer William s. Bss
and myself were really the only American
who could appreciate the facinations G
Jewish ideas expressed in the Hebre'
tongue, and as Best is only Scotchmar
though caught and civilized early, he don
count. Prince Joachimson and his pred
ecessors have lived at the West End fc
about 120 successive seasons, and over 10
Hebrew families follow the America
head of the Nation there every year. q
is so particular about the employment Z
his own language that Mr.. Hildreth has |
have the Princes bills made out in H
DIoNs AnAs 10 uOuc very OK pcltly Oy hll'
reth's skillfu1 clerk, who first writes ii
bill ont In German.American words an
figures, places it before costly hand-mi
TOR, and reproduces the reflection.
Millions were spent in improving and r
decorating Long Branch preparatory
this season. The Lelands, at the Ocea
House; the owners OF the Iron pier; Il
Pennsylvania and Central Jersey railway
LAUGH, Phil Daily, E. L. Brown and othe
combined must have spent at least 81, O0C
900 in repsinting the Ocean Hotel, in adj
ing to the safety of the pier, in construc
ing rev and gorgeous depots, in decoratiI
their restaurants and club houses and
building additional morgues at Elberol
Their liberality has already secured its ju
reward. The region about the pier and Il
Ocean House has come to be distinct
known as "Shseneytown." More Peep
ben ever get of land get away ss soon
possible) from the depots; Days Cir
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